Trump says – he posted on social media – that he has “just approved TINY CARS to be built in America.” The ALL CAPS are his.
Also the lie.
The TINY CARS he talks about cannot, under current circumstances, be legally sold in America because they do not meet federal “safety” standards, among other things. You may have caught my article about the Micro Microlina, which is a very tiny EV built by a Swiss company that you cannot legally sell in America because it does not have any airbags. It is thus non-compliant with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208 pertaining to what are styled “supplemental restraints” – which effectively requires every new vehicle to be equipped with dual front air bags. This is why – one reason why – every new vehicle available for sale in America costs thousands of dollars more than it otherwise would.
And that is just one FMVSS “standard.” There are many others. Would a TINY CAR meet roof crush/side-impact requirements? Probably not. Then what?
Air bags themselves are not the biggest expense, by the way. The real cost is the system. The entire car has to be designed around the air bags. The Microlina has no air bags and so it does not have to be designed around them. It is why the Microlina sells for about $16,000 in other countries, where it is legal to sell vehicles that do not have air bags.
In order for the Microlina and other such TINY CARS to be legal to sell in America, they would have to be re-engineered to accommodate air bags and the cost of doing this would do to them what has already been done to the vehicles we are allowed to buy; i.e., the TINY CARS would become just as expensive, just tinier. That would negate the whole point – or most of it – of buying a TINY CAR, which is to keep the cost tiny.
“The reason Japanese carmakers don’t make or sell kei cars in the U.S. is business feasibility,” Bloomberg Intelligence senior auto analyst Tatsuo Yoshida said on Thursday, adding that “pricing and costs don’t match.”
Certainly, there are people who just like the idea of owning a TINY CAR – because TINY CARS are cute in some people’s eyes and they take up a lot less space, etc. But if they are as or more expensive than larger cars, it is not likely many are going to sell. Proof of this lies in the failure of expensive TINY CARS such as the so-called Smart Car that was last offered for sale back in 2019. It was pulled off the market after that because not enough people were willing to pay almost $24,000 – back in 2019 – for a TINY CAR when they could buy a larger car for the same or even less money.
That is why the TINY CARS Trump talks about are not going to be sold here. He spoke – dishonestly – about how they will be built here. These two things are very different things.
“I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Manufacturers have long wanted to do this, just like they are so successfully built in other countries. They can be propelled by gasoline, electric, or hybrid. These cars of the very near future are inexpensive, safe, fuel efficient and, quite simply, AMAZING!!! START BUILDING THEM NOW! Thank you to the DOJ and the Departments of Transportation and Environment. ENJOY!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
It has never been a problem – a legal problem – to build TINY CARS here. They are not built here because it does not make sense to build them here. Why would any car company want to build them here, where it costs more to build everything here – especially when it is not legal to sell them here?
“Japanese Kei cars can’t be sold in the U.S. because they aren’t designed for this market and don’t meet various standards,” a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (an adjunct of the insurance mafia) told Newsweek. “Presumably an automaker could design a visibly similar small car to current U.S. regulations.”
Italics added.
In other something that looks like a TINY CAR but hasn’t got a tiny price.
Trump is either utterly ignorant of the regulatory (legal) realities or he is – to put it bluntly – full of shit. It has got to be the latter because he surely has heard from people who do know better, such as Sean Duffy – who is the secretary of transportation. Duffy cannot conceivably be unaware of the existence of his own regulatory bureaucracy, nor of the existence of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) that require all cars – including TINY ones – to have air bags and to be fully in compliance with every regulation promulgated in the FMVSS. Compliance isn’t optional. If a car company were to ignore the requirements spelled out in the FMVSS and put air-bag-less cars on the market, that company would face prosecution by the Feds.
Ergo, no manufacturer is going to offer non-compliant TINY cars for sale. No manufacturer is going to waste the R&D money bringing TINY cars into compliance, either – for the reasons laid our above. Because the end result would be a TINY car with a BIG price tag.
According to Newsweek, “The administration believes the compact cars would prove more fuel-efficient and affordable than those already available on the market, and Trump said manufacturing these domestically would allow more households to be able to afford a new vehicle.”
Italics added. Translation follows:
The administration believes the public is stupid enough to buy the president’s bullshit about TINY CARS. It is bullshit of a piece with all the other other bullshit – as for example about making the federal government more “efficient” and not starting new wars and ending the funding of the ones already begun.
Like the president’s prior promises, this one is not going to be kept.
The idea is to keep the minds of the people hoping they will be, until they forget all about them. And then offer them some new promises.
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Does anyone believe anything Trump says anymore? ANYONE?! If the guy’s lips are moving, he’s lying. He’s making Slick Willy look respectable by comparison. He’s making Caligula look respectable!
The only difference is that Slick Willy’s wife was butt ugly. At least Melania is easy on the eyes.
Well, well, well, Fiat is bringing the Topolino EV to the U.S. market.
Let me get this straight, it’s a Fiat…EV…built in Morrocco…what could possibly go wrong.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/2025/12/08/fiat-is-bringing-this-tiny-city-car-to-the-u-s/87671580007/
‘the electric two-seater maxes out at 28 mph’ — Detroit News
Even for purely urban driving, that’s going to be painfully slow on city streets with speeds up to 45 mph.
Is this a case of TDS — Trump Deception Syndrome?
And with a horsepower/weight ratio approximately 1/13th that of my wife’s RAV4 (assuming a 150 lb driver and no passenger in both vehicles), just getting up to that painfully slow speed is going to take 2 forevers. Even if that little mouse’s tiny electric motor sports the vaunted full-torque-at-zero-speed characteristic.
Just for fun, we can pretend this actually happens, and Honda/Daihatsu/et. al. start building HiJets and Moves and Jimneys and whatever else in America. The American labor expense is about 50% higher than Japan, labor expense accounts for about 65% of the manufacturing cost, so these little vehicles are going to cost about 32.5% more in America than in Japan – but they are still going to be quite inexpensive compared to anything else available.
Example: A Daihatsu Hijet High Roof 2WD CVT (a mini pickup truck) is about $7100 in Japan, so an American-made version would be about $9400 because of the greater labor expense. If I did the math right, a $9400, 48 month, 5% car loan would have around a $217 monthly payment if you financed the whole amount – which a far greater percentage of prospective borrowers can reliably make every month compared to the average $750/month car loan payment.
One reason this may actually happen is the car loan financialization problem – with car loans being used to back securities – it looks a bit like 2008, but with car loans instead of home loans. People on the subprime end are defaulting on these loans at an increasing rate, unsurprisingly, so the market needs cars people can actually afford – not out of any concern for the masses, but to feed Larry Fink’s rapacious financial system a reliable stream of revenue.
I don’t watch 60 minutes or MSM news, but in today’s internet news was the MTG interview by Leslie Stahl:
“Break with Trump: Greene discussed her fallout with former President Donald Trump, who labeled her a “traitor” after she supported the release of Epstein files. She claimed this led to death threats against her and her family.”
I found this clip of that part of the interview:
MTG REVEALS Trump ‘FURIOUS’ With Her Over Epstein Files In 60 Minutes Intv | RISING
The Hill 2.12M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSedUXhWJSY
MTG says Trump is not Amerika first – confirming what we already know. Trump’s anger over the Epstein files:
1. He is in them, compromised, and it is worse than we know (like he participated in underaged girl trafficking)
2. He is protecting Israel, which was part of the Epstein blackmail ring, many top politicians are being blackmailed, and trump is protecting the swamp
3. Both 1 and 2 – which I would go for, Trump is a seriously compromised degenerate pedo, liar, and should resign. We can not have a compromised president, this is a national security issue, Trump must resign in disgrace like Nixon.
4. This adds more evidence that Trump took an active roll in the Charlie Kirk assassination
At this point Orange Man should simply be labeled “Cesspool Man” because he’s clearly full of nothing but shit.
I think it’s perfectly safe to say there will be no more federal elections that anyone with a single brain cell or shred of self-respect will participate in. It’s just too obviously beyond pointless now to even pretend that this country is a functioning constitutional republic. Indeed, given the accelerated pace at which things are declining, I wouldn’t be surprised if “hot” civil war erupts long before 2028, rendering the question of presidential election altogether moot. In fact, I doubt there’s even any point to the 2026 midterms next year.
Built: yes. For sale here: No.
‘Compliance isn’t optional.’ — eric
Lest we forget, Europe still writhes under the jackboot of socialist Woke creatures that resemble the ‘Biden’ entity:
‘Carmakers urged the European Commission on Monday not to set mandatory targets for electric vehicle purchases for corporate fleets, arguing it would be cripplingly expensive and counter-productive.
‘The EU executive is set to unveil a series of proposals on December 16 that could give the European auto sector more flexibility in meeting CO2 emissions targets as well as easing an effective ban on new sales of internal combustion engine cars in 2035.
‘The package will also include plans for corporate fleets, such as company cars, which make up some 50-60% of new car sales in the EU.
‘The carmakers’ letter said a mandatory target would be “highly damaging,” and that the high cost would leave companies with two options – retaining older vehicles for longer, or reducing new vehicle purchases.’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/carmakers-rental-leasing-firms-urge-181422358.html
Retain older vehicles; shun new vehicles: exactly the strategy I adopted to avoid unwanted features such as telematics, douchescreens, and lane keeping ‘assistance.’
For Europe, I favor mandatory EeeVees — they will help accelerate the socialist continent’s headlong economic suicide. Then I can hire some punctilious German servants, dirt cheap, to tend my lawn, wash my clothes, and fetch me cold brewskis at the snap of a finger. 🙂
The irony is that Europe was way behind in regulation until the mid 1990’s. When I went in 1986, they were still selling leaded gasoline, long after the US largely got rid of it.
More inane bluster from a pathological liar and conman. I couldn’t find the text of this particular executive order, if there actually was one, so that might be telling.
I’m quite disappointed in this country and our dwindling freedoms to include not being able to buy and drive a vehicle of our choice, but having myriad regulations foisted upon us in the name of “saaaafety!”.
Added to which is the ineptitude of our populace, so-called “leaders” and our science and engineering sectors. Proof in point:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-successfully-operates-worlds-first-thorium-molten-salt-reactor
“China Successfully Operates World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor”
We should’ve had 50 of these reactors powering industry by now. But I feel that we are inundated with feckless retards, incapable of changing their own oil or putting on a spare tire, let alone building innovative nuclear reactors.
Exasperating.
Candidate Trump on Ted Cruz: “Lyin’ Ted,” “the single biggest liar,” a “soft, weak little baby,” and a “failed senator.”
https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/new-video-what-donald-trump-really-thinks-about-ted-cruz
But now can’t see through his lies anymore than Lindsey Graham’s (or Israel’s): 0:14 “Well, Mr. President, I want to congratulate you on behalf of everyone here for the leadership that you’re showing and and this is a victory today for consumers. This is a victory for affordability. Your critics like to say the word affordability under Joe Biden and the Democrats. They put mandate after mandate after mandate on cars and trucks and they drove the price up thousands and thousands of dollars. And with the actions you’re taking today and you put on top of that the one big beautiful bill, you know, most of the senators here on the Senate Commerce Committee and on the Commerce Committee, WE WORKED TOGETHER TO ZERO OUT THE CAFE STANDARDS. We wrote that into the law that the cafe standards went to zero. What does that mean? It means you can now as a consumer buy the car you want. It also means people’s lives will be safer because what these regulations did is they forced cars to be more expensive and made of plastic instead of steel to because you had to make them lighter to comply with these standards. So you’d get in a wreck and people would die. The result of what you’re doing, you’re literally saving people’s lives and you’re making it where families can afford to get a new car. These actions will drop the cost of cars and trucks thousands of dollars. That’s makes a real difference. And I’ll make one final point. You know, about HALF THE (CONGRESS) MEMBERS HERE ARE CAR DEALERS. And I will say my good friend Roger Williams out in the lobby, he tried to sell me a car. Uh which didn’t surprise me, but I just just want to give props to Mike Kelly. He showed he was savvier because he tried to sell you a car and you can afford a much nicer car than I can. So well done, Mike. Roger. You just went to the wrong customer. I was a $100 cheaper.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMpFwIGkyGY
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/congressman-car-dealer-refuses-to-cooperate-with-investigators/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cong-kelly-denies-any-wrongdoing-in-his-car-dealership-getting-pandemic-relief/
In our complex system of state, how can Trump know everything about what will be approved or not? I would give him credit for at least trying to get small cars sold here. The Trump revolution spirit is about dismantling the bureaucratic regulatory nightmare paralyzing the nation. Trump needs to dismantle DOT, OSHA, and the EPA and DOE and the military industrial complex.
Eric knows the details, so Trump’s latest proposal will be DOA. Trump can’t fix the problem, because he defends the very agencies causing the problem.
The bigger problem with Trump is his Zionist attachment which is going to completely destroy the nation regardless of any good thing he may try to implement. So long as the United States backs Israel and genocide, allows Israel to pull false flags, like 911, that gets us into expensive financial ruinatious wars, we are going to continue to sink into oblivion.
Israel did 911 then the USA went to war for Israel and went into debt another 8 trillion. This causes massive price inflation from the massive monetary inflation to finance the war debt – causing the price of cars to go up – creating the problem in the first place. Theoretically, if we had a balanced budget and a constant money supply, we would not have cars costing 50k.
If you want small cars forget the Federal government, have state legislatures approve Kei cars in their local jurisdictions, and then allow the market to flood the consumers with small cars they can afford, until the regulators relent and allow us to experience freedom of choice.
The bottom line is that these government goons have no right to dictate standards for cars, they are not in charge of our safety, and not correct about the climate change hoax of uncontrolled warming from CO2 – which they incorrectly label as a pollutant. So here we are, unable to afford new cars because of what they did to us with their god damned lies. Screw them, it is time to ignore them and carry on without them.
The safety argument is a joke, the US government has killed over 30 million people since WW2 on their wars. War is the most unsafe thing, and it is caused by government. If the government wants to make us safe then they should kill the people in government and industry who are manipulating the system to make war. For instance, if you want to protect human lives you should immediately kill Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Robert Kagan, all the rest of the Neocons, all the Israelis involved in the 911 false flag. If you want to protect the nation, then the owners and senior staff at the New York Times should be put up against the wall and shot dead like the Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. The NYT has killed far more innocent people than the former Romanian dictator when they lie about WMDs. Knowingly lie.
The only real solution is that the Federal Government, which is run by Israelis, needs to be immediately dismantled, and decisions about car safety and emissions regulated by the states. The District of Criminals have completely wrecked our national state by being willing whores of Israel.
This will be just like the $5k DOGE check and the $2k tariff refund. It’ll never happen. This would take actual work and possibly legislation to achieve. Areas where Trump and most Republicans know little about.
I agree with you Eric, very doubtful these will be allowed to sell here.
I was in greece recently and all cars are tiny cars…… hell, most run around on scooters.
I didn’t notice if they had airbags or not, sorry. A lot of the EU brands did have the typical newer tech crap though.
My favorite car was the Skoda Octavia, which a lot of taxi guys drove. The whole trunk area goes very low to carry many bags.
There was some talk recently about aligning EU and USA regs, but I doubt our Gov-BigBiz partnership will allow it, unless it makes it harder………..
Ive rented a skoda in the czech republic, its not bad considering the one I had was a station wagon version with a manual transmission, however it had a 1000cc motorcycle size engine that left a lot to be desired in the torque department. Still sippy on gas and not over-teched. Its just a learning curve to switch from a big v8 where torque pulls you through to this thing you have to rev all the time or it dies. It also had auto start which is handy when you screw up and stall it.
makes sense. We only could rent tiny cars. I never drove the Skoda, considered a large car there. Lots of diesels and manuals. I don’t think the diesels had our crap Tier4 stuff, only from the sound, I didn’t look.
ChrisIN,
Thanks for the opening. I actually found Athens to be the easiest Capital City I’ve ever been to, to navigate about.
Just Zero in on what column your habitation is located in relation, to the Parthenon …tool around to your heart’s content, and after a exploratory evening…tell the “hack” to drop you off at …”That Column ”
and head “home”. Astoundingly EZ!
“Duffy cannot conceivably be unaware of the existence of his own regulatory bureaucracy, nor of the existence of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) that require all cars – including TINY ones – to have air bags and to be fully in compliance with every regulation promulgated in the FMVSS. Compliance isn’t optional.”
You give these morons far too much credit.
In 2021 Ford brought in Doug Field – formerly of Tesla and Apple. The guy is dumber than rocks. He was constantly asking why things had to be done in such a way not realizing the design constraints were defined by FMVSS.
These types of people don’t rise to positions of authority due to their intimate knowledge of federal regulation, their ability to provide a product the customer wants, or their ability to effectively lead an organization.
That could be so, BID – in which case, words fail!
The question remains, would American consumers actually want a micro-car. I wouldn’t, and I have driven many subcompact cars with manual transmissions that most buyers would scoff at. The Smart car and the Fiat 500 were sales flops in the U.S.
One of my cars right now is a Ford Focus with a stick. I have put probably 400,000 miles on Ford Focuses, but I looked at a Fiesta once and said “No bueno.”
I have put hundreds of thousands of miles on Ford and Dodge base-model 4 cyl 2wd trucks, but these have never been big sellers compared to the optioned-up ones. And a base 1990s Ranger is still a hell of a lot bigger than a “Smart” car.
It’s true that jacked-up 3/4 ton 4-door, 4×4 trucks with heated seats and touchscreens and heated steering wheels cost $80k, which is absurd, but a lot of Americans do seem to want them.
“It’s true that jacked-up 3/4 ton 4-door, 4×4 trucks with heated seats and touchscreens and heated steering wheels cost $80k, which is absurd, but a lot of Americans do seem to want them.”
Maybe. There’s a guy who came to our church for a handout who chose the $80k vehicle over the $50k because the monthly payment was “only” $400 different, and was upsold on the farcical “resale value”. Despite showing him amortization schedules and all, he’s firmly convinced he made the right choice. And will probably make the same choice next time.
People like that are what makes it so the dealer doesn’t even bother with stripped down models. He knows he can always persuade economic ignoramuses to buy the model with all the bells and whistles, because it’s available today, and, after all, you deserve it, darn it.
The key word here is “built”. Trump never said anything about them being SOLD here in the United States.
Sadly, America did build the equivalent of KEI cars. The King Midget and larger Crosley filled that niche. One of King Midget’s advertising slogans was “500 pounds for $500.00”. With the larger engine you could hit 50 miles an hour in something smaller than a golf cart.
Who’s The King- Midget Motors
https://youtu.be/6xUPZYmclOY
I kind of love it, Landru!
The first thing that popped up upon searching was someone trying to sell one for $10k on eBay.
If that thing could hit 50 MPH with essentially a lawnmower engine, I wonder what it could do with something like an old Kawasaki engine or the like.
Of course, these days you’d have to call it the “King Little Person”. or Peter Dinklage would be outraged.
This alleged tinkering with the DOT/NHTSA/FMVSS BS is just that, tinkering. It needs a wholesale overhaul then thrown in the dustbin of history.
The nearly 60k employees of the Federal GovCo DOT will not go quietly into the night. They and their state level buddies along with the entire environmental and “safety” lobbies will have a flippin’ fit. Can you hear the screams now? “YOU’RE KILLING THE PLANET!!!” “YOU’RE KILLING THE CHILDREN!!!” (Which, in a sane world, would be recognized for the cognitive dissonance that it is)
Sadly we’ll probably have to go through some Mad Maxx style crash that makes people realize these parasites need to go. The problem with that is we’ve reached that tipping point where a majority benefit in some way from all this GovCo madness. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth if we are to get back to sanity.
Allowing any government parasite the right to vote is simply a vote to perpetuate the self licking ice cream cone they created.
Mark, you’re right. Tinkering won’t get us there. But remember, 50% of people are of below average intelligence, and 70 plus percent have been gradually indoctrinated to believe the lies and trust “their betters”.
If you try to smash the broken system, they will hate you, and fight you, and find a million and one ways to stymie you. So you have to push in small corrections, you can’t turn the Titanic just by spinning the ship’s wheel.
Even now, they are fighting tooth and nail against everything the Trump crew tries to do, from commie judges to black hat assassins. And some of the things you try are going to be wrong, or counterproductive.
So by all means, keep screaming for correction. Just don’t be surprised when you don’t see what you want happen.
That’s why I say it’s going to take a total collapse to correct this stuff. What comes next is anyone’s guess but, we can pray it will be as peaceful as the fall of the Soviet Union.
Amen, Mark –
I think the greatest threat comes from the “city people” who have little and will demand more. I think people who live in rural areas may end up having to form defense militias to protect their communities – by keeping outsiders out.
Indeed Eric. The hordes of city people will try and swarm the outlying areas and try to destroy us. Or…like fleeing stupid Californians, they will flee to our area because it is nicer and then ruin it for the rest of us.
We’ll see. The USSC is reviewing Presidential firings.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-fire-ftc-commissioner/
Assuming they agree that the agencies are executive branch, the “limits” Congress tried to put on the President are on shaky ground. If that’s true, FMVSS is one EO from dead, as it is entirely a product of the agencies, and has only the authority of the CFR. Chevron Deference died. Several “footnotes”, too.
I’m not saying he knows any of this, but Stephen Miller probably does, or at least has friends who do.
‘I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America.’ — Pres. Donald J Fubar
At an Oval Office meeting with auto execs last week, the president verbally instructed Transport Secretary Sean Duffy to authorize tiny (kei) cars. Duffy responded:
‘On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a CNBC interviewer that the administration was in the process of “clearing the deck” for regulatory changes following Trump’s directive.’ — japantoday.com
By law, regulatory changes go through a procedure. They are drafted, published in the Federal Register, undergo a public comment period, and then are finalized. As an example, a 575-page rule to modify CAFE standards was announced at the Oval Office meeting. It is about to be published in the Federal Register for public comment.
Duffy has quite a can of worms on his hands to legalize kei (KAY-EE) cars. At a minimum, his new reg would have to exempt kei cars from a laundry list of FMVSS standards, and define the required domestic content for US manufacturing.
Typically this regulatory promulgation would take at least 6 to 12 months. Trump, with his characteristic disregard for detail, may believe that he’s ‘approved’ kei cars, in the same way that he approved demolition of the east wing of the White House. But it’s not so.
BLOTUS isn’t deliberately lying. Rather, as an impulsive and uninformed illiterate who doesn’t do details, Trump imagines in his NPD-distorted mind that his diktat is law. In coming weeks, the Supreme Court will rule on Donnie’s unilateral tariff deals. My guess is that the No-account Nine jerk the rug out from under Humpty Dumpty Trumpty, perhaps fatally wounding his hypertrophied ego. 🙁
Morning, Jim!
There’s another interesting aspect to this. If TINY CARS get an exemption from the federal regs requiring air bags, why the hell should any new vehicle have to have air bags? We’re supposed to believe that Trump will legalize some cars to be air bag-free but not others? What’s next? Some cars can roll without catalytic converters? I’d like to see that, of course. But to believe it will happen is to believe in nonsense.
Unless we demand it!. Like you have said, Trump inadvertently reopened the debate. And yes, I notice his turn of phrase. I don’t believe it was accidental.
Tiny hands, tiny steering wheels, tiny cars…
(Couldn’t resist)
You are correct, but what could happen is an economic emergency – we are being impoverished by state policies, rampant deficit spending – which is forcing price inflation of everything – and will keep the push on car prices. Gold going through the roof is a bad omen of higher inflation and worse conditions.
D.C. has really screwed us with their endless war spending policies. Thus, as our impoverishment grinds on they will be forced to allow cheap cars to be imported. This happened in the 1970s and I remember it well, gas prices went up and the big V-8s became unaffordable to drive, and the relief of a Honda Civic to get to work was not yet available.
I can remember as a teenager looking desperately in the Cleveland Plain Dealer looking for a used Honda Civic to buy and there was none. The only “cheap” care available was the Ford Pinto, and our family has 5 of them along with Olds and Chevys, I spent much high school years working on the Pintos trying to get them to start on cold damp winter days. Finally, in 1982 I bought my first used import, a Plymouth Champ, which always started and got great fuel economy. It’s going to happen again Eric, we have been screwed big time and they will be forced to do something drastic to get cheap cars on the market again.
“By law, regulatory changes go through a procedure. They are drafted, published in the Federal Register, undergo a public comment period, and then are finalized.”
Yep. The Federal Register Act. Created by New Dealers to get around the Constitution and impose rules with the power of law, but extremely limited (read, no) way to petition for redress of grievances. The odds may not be very good, but this is as close as we’ve seen to having the whole thing tossed out since FDR threatened to pack the court, and the USSC backed down.
Without even enough courtesy to give a reacharound.